This work focuses on tracking formic acid adsorption as formate onto polycrystalline gold and its subsequent catalyzed oxidation to carbon dioxide. Formic acid oxidation is notoriously dependent on supporting electrolyte ...

Lysine methylation is a post-translational modification that regulates a large array of functionally diverse processes that are vital for cellular function. The role of methylation is best characterized on histone proteins ...

Building upon existing synthetic methods, we have optimized the synthesis of Thiele’s methyl ester to an efficient and scalable methodology. As part of a study of chemo- and regioselective transformations within the Thiele’s ...

The aqueous photochemistry of 4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxybenzoic acid (syringic acid) has been studied as a model humic substance in order to better understand the reactions that compounds of this type undergo in the natural ...

New complex silicon-containing molecules were made by B(C6F5)3-catalyzed hydrosilation, dehydrocoupling, and dealkylative coupling reactions starting from Si-H reagents. The scope of reactions starting from disilane was ...

The infrared portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum is a challenging region in which to perform optical techniques, limited by both device efficiency and availability. In this dissertation, a new optical technique is ...

In their paper [2] Cuntz, Deninger, and Laca introduced a C*-algebra \mathfrak{T}[R] associated to a number ring R and showed that it was functorial for injective ring homomorphisms and had an interesting KMS-state ...

Lanthanide-based nanoparticles can be used in a variety of applications, including biomedical work such as imaging and cancer therapies, and in solar cells. This thesis presents two different potential applications for ...

Over the last few decades, membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) has been established as a robust tool for the on-line continuous monitoring of trace gases and volatile organic compounds. However, the range of ...